To nominate a cover, click on the appropriate category below:

Nominations are open for covers first published in 2015 until January 15, 2016. Holiday Favorites Nominations open until November 15, 2015.

Genre Descriptions

Avant Garde
Covers that are outside the box of romance cover trends, cutting edge, unique, future trend setters, inventive, and feature a fresh approach in cover design. The covers can be from any of the categories listed below but they also can be
from women's fiction, historicals, straight mysteries, or even thrillers. We are looking for the trail blazers in cover design.

Contemporary (Contemporary includes modern day and retro romances from 1980 forward.)

Two-Image CoversAny covers from the above subgenres are eligible for a TIC nomination. Two Image covers
feature either: a Stepback with an additional image placed on the inside or a Back Cover with an additional
image comprising more than 50% of the back cover.

WorstWhat were they thinking? covers but not necessarily the worst covers produced in 2015. Print covers from any of the above subgenres are eligible for the Worst category. E-books are
eligible if they are published by an established publishing company. (Self-published ebooks are not eligible.)

Don't Know
If you aren't sure where your cover belongs, use this form.

Nomination Guidelines 2015!

Romance covers published during the 2015 calendar year are eligible. If a cover was published in different formats, during two different calendar years
(i.e. A book is published as an eBook one year and published with the same cover as a paperback or hardcover in the following year.), it can be nominated in
both years but can only appear in the contest finals once.

If a cover was published in December, 2014 and was not nominated or featured in the 2014 contest then it is eligible for the 2015 contest.

If a cover nomination features an illustration that has been used on another cover, from either the current year or a previous year, the covers must
have unique styles and different layouts. If the covers are too similar, the second cover nominated will not be eligible.

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